Quotes

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

We are prisoners of ideas.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

No man should be judge in his own case.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.